The history of the county of Cambridge, : from the earliest account to the present time. Wherein is given an account of its inhabitants, kings, air, rivers, soil, produce, dimensions, hundreds, deaneries, seats of the gentry, members of parliament, high sheriffs, &c. Also a particular account of the ancient and modern Cambridge, with the city of Ely, and the several parishes therein; likewise an account of the several towns and villages, in an alphabetical order. / By Edmund Carter, of Cambridge.
Edmund Carter (fl.1753)
Category
Books
Date
1819
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3260406
Summary
Bibliographic description
iv, 376 p. ; 8vo. Pencil note on front free endpaper verso: "only 140 copies ptd. / see Preface". Ephemera: loosely inserted clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this copy, price: 42/-. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full calf; double gilt fillet to form an outer border; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt tooled spine; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Carter's Hist: of the county of Cambridge'; single gilt fillet on board edges; gilt textblock edges; dark grey endpapers.
Makers and roles
Edmund Carter (fl.1753), author William Upcott (1799-1845), editor